This work is based on the 11th century Anglo-Saxon legend. Lady Godiva, wife of Lord Coventry, in order to relieve the people of heavy taxes, resolutely agreed to her husband’s almost humiliating condition – to ride naked through the city. The picture was fixed at the moment when she stepped out of the palace and was about to step on the white horse. Collier captured the complex look of her moment with delicate brushstrokes: both shyness and fear of the unknown, but also revealing the firmness a